My last question has spawned this one that I have been trying to find the answer to for a while:

Its easy to auto add a mailbox into your own outlook by giving permissions to that box. Why, when you TAKE the permissions from that mailbox, the box wont disappear and it becomes a huge hassle to get rid of it and in some cases impossible to get rid of?

I have found posts that say to go into ADSIedit and do things which im very afraid to do!

Yep, just remove them from Outlook like Jay said, edit the Account Settings > More Settings and Advanced. You should still be able to remove them from here easily even after removing the permissions.

Alternatively you can see exactly where the settings are stored in AD and remove them directly (although as you rightly pointed out, using ADSIEdit shouldn't be done without understanding what you are doing).

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Shut down outlook, then go into control panel, mail icon, then click on profile and remove the unwanted profile or go into accounts and remove the unwanted account (depends on how you set this up is how to remove) THEN you want to remove the rights from the mail box from the server and all should be smooth and painless.

Im talking about the mailboxes INSIDE outlook. I have a ton of profiles inside the mail icon. are you saying to pretty much start from scratch and remove ALL profiles (which i could i guess and rebuild when needed).

Yep, just remove them from Outlook like Jay said, edit the Account Settings > More Settings and Advanced. You should still be able to remove them from here easily even after removing the permissions.

Alternatively you can see exactly where the settings are stored in AD and remove them directly (although as you rightly pointed out, using ADSIEdit shouldn't be done without understanding what you are doing).

Im talking about the mailboxes INSIDE outlook. I have a ton of profiles inside the mail icon. are you saying to pretty much start from scratch and remove ALL profiles (which i could i guess and rebuild when needed).

If you open up the profiles on Outlook (the client machine) and there are multiples you don't want, this is where I am saying to remove them. You don't have to remove them all and start over unless you want to.

Nick provides a great link above to with some nice visuals.

Like I said, it all depends on how you added it, since you can add it as a secondary profile, or you went into your accounts settings in Outlook and added a second account will determine how to remove them.

Yep, just remove them from Outlook like Jay said, edit the Account Settings > More Settings and Advanced. You should still be able to remove them from here easily even after removing the permissions.

Alternatively you can see exactly where the settings are stored in AD and remove them directly (although as you rightly pointed out, using ADSIEdit shouldn't be done without understanding what you are doing).

Nicks solution is exactly what you need to do to remove additional mailboxes from within Outlook (I think it is the only way you can do it. You can also get to the same flag from within the AD users and computers, first click View, then advanced features, go to the users account who you have given the other person permission to access then click on the Attribute Editor tab, look for msExchDelegateListLink and remove the person who no longer needs access to the mailbox. So if you had access to my mailbox and no longer needed it you would go to my user account then remove yourself from that attribute.

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I ran across this last week too. I think it has to do with the Outlook 2010 autodiscovery.

So far what I've found to work is having to go into ADSIEdit.msc, Domain context, and drill down to the account you wish to be removed from, and look for the "MSExchDelegateListLink" attribute and remove yourself from that list. The next time you start Outlook 2010, the ghost "additional" mailbox should disappear after a few minutes.

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Same problem as the OP, have about 20 dead mailboxes in my Outlook 2010 that i have long ago removed my access permissions to. What a great system to autoconnect mailboxes when you have the privileges, then leave zombie mailboxes laying around as you loose them. Way to go MS! Sorry, its late at night and i felt like ranting

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I went into the Exchange powershell and re added the full access permissions with automapping set to false. I had already removed this account from account settings and from profiles in the mail icon in control panel as well as removing full access permissions from the Exchange console. Once I re-added the full access with automapping set to false I shutdown Outlook and reopened it and the other mailbox when away.

I ran across this last week too. I think it has to do with the Outlook 2010 autodiscovery.

So far what I've found to work is having to go into ADSIEdit.msc, Domain context, and drill down to the account you wish to be removed from, and look for the "MSExchDelegateListLink" attribute and remove yourself from that list. The next time you start Outlook 2010, the ghost "additional" mailbox should disappear after a few minutes.